| Titles | Order |
| Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails by Michael L. Tate | Book of the Year, 2007 |
| Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, And the Panic of 1873 by M. John Lubetkin | Best New Book, 2007 |
| Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné by B. Byron Price | Nonfiction, 2008 |
| A Feast of Longing by Sarah Klassen | Fiction, 2008 |
| Migration Patterns: Stories by Gary L. Schanbacher | First Book, 2008 |
| Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith (The Western Legacies Series) by Margot Kahn | First Book, 2009 |
| In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein by Peter H. Hassrick | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| Made Flesh by Craig Arnold | Poetry, 2009 |
| Road Map to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years With Down Syndrome by Jennifer Graf Groneberg | Woman Writer, 2009 |
| So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger | Fiction, 2009 |
| 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster | First Book, 2010 |
| Holding Everything Down (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by William Notter | Poetry, 2010 |
| Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter Mcclintock (The Western Legacies Series) by Steven L. Grafe | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. Hasselstrom | Woman Writer, 2010 |
| Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers | Fiction, 2010 |
| Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations (Witness to History) by Tim Lehman | Nonfiction, 2011 |
| Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains by Ruth McLaughlin | First Book, 2011 |
| Ghosts of Wyoming: Stories by Alyson Hagy | Fiction, 2011 |
| Goodbye Wifes and Daughters by Susan Kushner Resnick | Woman Writer, 2011 |
| Horse Tracks: Poems by Henry Real Bird | Poetry, 2011 |
| Visions of the Big sky : painting and photographing the northern Rocky Mountain West by Dan Flores | Art & Photography, 2011 |
| American Masculine: Stories by Shann Ray | First Book, 2012 |
| Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Indian Reservation by Sara Wiles | Art & Photography, 2012 |
| Hand raised : the barns of Montana by Chere Jiusto | Nonfiction, 2012 |
| Married into it by Patricia Frolander | Woman Writer, 2012 |
| The Ringer by Jenny Shank | Fiction, 2012 |
| Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison | Poetry, 2012 |
| The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupre by Sarah Kathryn York | First Book, 2013 |
| Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry by Joan Nabseth Stevenson | Nonfiction, 2013 |
| Foodshed : an edible Alberta alphabet by Dee Hobsbawn-Smith | Culinary, 2013 |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth | Woman Writer, 2013 |
| Montana: Real Place, Real People (Companion Press Series) by Alan Kesselheim | Art & Photography, 2013 |
| Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry Prize) by Joe Wilkins | Poetry, 2013 |
| The Round House by Louise Erdrich | Fiction, 2013 |
| What You Get at Home by Dora Dueck | Short Stories, 2013 |
| Baba's Babushka : A Magical Ukrainian Wedding by Marion Mutala | Children’s Book, 2014 |
| Black Helicopters by Blythe Woolston | Young Adult, 2014 |
| Clearwater by Kim McCullough | Woman Writer, 2014 |
| Cowboys and East Indians by Nina Mcconigley | Short Stories, 2014 |
| In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene (Counterpunch) by Doug Peacock | Medicine & Science, 2014 |
| Karl Bodmer's America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) by Robert Lindholm | Art & Photography, 2014 |
| Let Him Go by Larry Watson | Fiction, 2014 |
| Montana by Gwen Florio | First Book, 2014 |
| Rough Breaks: A Wyoming High Country Memoir by Laurie Wagner Buyer | Nonfiction, 2014 |
| Back to Batoche by Cheryl Chad | Children’s Book, 2015 |
| Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce Andrews | Nonfiction, First Book, 2015 |
| Balefire: Poems by Shann Ray | Poetry, 2015 |
| Camp Outlook by Brenda Baker | Young Adult, 2015 |
| Charles M. Russell: Photographing the Legend (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) by Larry Len Peterson | Art & Photography, 2015 |
| The Home Place: A Novel by Carrie La Seur | Woman Writer, 2015 |
| Stars Go Blue: A Novel by Laura Pritchett | Fiction, 2015 |
| A Taste of Montana: Favorite Recipes from Big Sky Country by Seabring Davis | Culinary, 2015 |
| The Widow Smalls and Other Stories by Jamie Lisa Forbes | Short Stories, 2015 |
| Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer by Patrick Dobson | Creative Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Cub's Journey Home by Georgia Graham | Children’s Book, 2016 |
| Far Enough: A Western in Fragments by Joe Wilkins | Short Stories, 2016 |
| Glacier National Park After Dark: Sunset to Sunrise in a Beloved Montana Wilderness by John Ashley | Medicine & Science, 2016 |
| Grizzly: The Bears of Greater Yellowstone by Todd Wilkinson | Art & Photography, 2016 |
| Historical Atlas of Colorado by Thomas J. Noel | Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Madder Carmine by Tyler Enfield | Fiction, 2016 |
| Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck | Woman Writer, 2016 |
| The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee | Fiction, 2017 |
| Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe | Indigenous Writer, 2017 |
| For a Little While by Rick Bass | Short Stories, 2017 |
| Frederic Remington : a catalogue raisonné II by Peter H. Hassrick | Art & Photography, 2017 |
| Hopping Ahead of Climate Change by Sneed B. Collard | Medicine & Science, 2017 |
| Hurt People by Cote Smith | First Book, 2017 |
| The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan | Nonfiction, 2017 |
| Mortal Fall by Christine Carbo | Woman Writer, 2017 |
| The Pain Eater by Beth Goobie | Young Adult, 2017 |
| Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets by Lowell Jaeger | Poetry, 2017 |
| Runs With Courage by Joan M. Wolf | Children’s Book, 2017 |
| Temperance Creek: A Memoir by Pamela Royes | Creative Nonfiction, 2017 |
| Bad Kansas: Stories by Becky Mandelbaum | First Book, 2018 |
| A Darkness Lit by Heroes by Doug Ammons | Creative Nonfiction, 2018 |
| Days without End by Sebastian Barry | Fiction, 2018 |
| The Last Chance Ladies' Book Club by Marlis Wesseler | Woman Writer, 2018 |
| The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands by Chris Turner | Medicine & Science, 2018 |
| Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo | Young Adult, 2018 |
| Strangers (The Reckoner) by David A. Robertson | Indigenous Writer, 2018 |
| Theodore Waddell: My Montana―Paintings and Sculpture, 1959–2016 by Rick Newby | Art & Photography, 2018 |
| Throwing the diamond hitch by Emily Ursuliak | Poetry, 2018 |
| Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon by John Clayton | Nonfiction, 2018 |
| An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor by Danell Jones | Nonfiction, 2019 |
| Albert Bierstadt : witness to a changing West by Peter H. Hassrick | Art & Photography, 2019 |
| Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (American Indian Lives) by Susan Devan Harness | Indigenous Writer, Woman Writer, Creative Nonfiction, 2019 |
| Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories by Thomas McGuane | Short Stories, 2019 |
| Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff | Short Stories, 2019 |
| The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson | Fiction, 2019 |
| Sadia by Colleen Nelson | Young Adult Book, 2019 |
| The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen | Medicine & Science, First Book, 2019 |
| View from True North (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Sara Henning | Poetry, 2019 |
| Cold White Sun by Sue Farrell Holler — not in English Common Knowledge | Young Adult, 2020 |
| Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston — not in English Common Knowledge | Creative Nonfiction, 2020 |
| Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, 2020 |
| From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle — not in English Common Knowledge | Indigenous Writer, 2020 |
| Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, 2020 |
| Reckless Steps toward Sanity: A Memoir by Judith Sara Gelt — not in English Common Knowledge | First Book, 2020 |
| River People by Margaret Lukas — not in English Common Knowledge | Woman Writer, 2020 |
| Six Hundred Generations by Carl M. Davis — not in English Common Knowledge | Medicine & Science, 2020 |
| Wilderness//Kingdom by Jory Mickelson — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, 2020 |
| Winning Chance by Katherine Koller — not in English Common Knowledge | Short Stories, 2020 |
| Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory by David A. Robertson — not in English Common Knowledge | Creative Nonfiction, 2021 |
| The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West by Rob Chaney | 2021 |
| The Historians by Cecilia Ekback — not in English Common Knowledge | Woman Writer, 2021 |
| If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis — not in English Common Knowledge | Short Stories, 2021 |
| Opulence, Kansas by Julie Stielstra | Young Adult Book, 2021 |
| Response of Weeds, The: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth — not in English Common Knowledge | First Book, 2021 |
| Roadside Geology of Montana by Don Hyndman — not in English Common Knowledge | Medicine & Science, 2021 |
| Ruthie Fear: A Novel by Maxim Loskutoff — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, 2021 |
| Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden — not in English Common Knowledge | Indigenous Writer, 2021 |
